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A COMEDY FOR FOUR LADIES 
IN ONE ACT 



By 

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CHARACTERS 

Clarissa Tollemache, a slight, pretty girl of eighteen. 

Rupert Porter, a very slender, youthful, fashionable gallant. 
As his appearance, voice, and manner are all effeminate, this 
part is undertaken by a lady, the Georgian costume making 
this a simple matter. 

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Sally, a pert young waiting woman. 

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MISTRESS RUNAWAY 

A COMEDY FOR FOUR LADIES IN ONE ACT 

Scene. — A small inn parlour. Door at r. back. 
Window at l. back. High screen between door and 
window, stretching into room. Fireplace with fire 
L. Settle on hearth. Oak chair and side table with 
drawers. Oak table c. 

At the beginning of the scene Clarissa and Sally wear 
long travelling cloaks and hoods, which are after- 
wards removed. 

{Enter Clarissa and Sally cloaked. Clarissa goes 
quickly and sits on settle, pulls out handkerchief , 
and pats her eyes.) 

Sally. Now, now, mistress, crying again ! La ! 
What's the use ? 'Twill but spoil your eyes. We've 
put thirty good miles 'twixt us and madame, and I 
dare swear she's not found we've flown yet ! 

Clarissa (sighs). Oh ! but if she has ! Think 
of her rage, Sally ! She has the swiftest horses in 
the county, and — and — oh ! well, Sally, you know 
what she would say if she caught us ! 

Sally (grimaces). That I do, mistress ! Why, 
two days ago she boxed my ears for just giving Tom 
the ostler a decent word or two ! But she'll rue it ! 



8 MISTRESS RUNAWAY. 

(Tosses her head.) I'd have thought twice about 
aiding you to run away if she'd kept civil. As if a 
pretty maid could simmer up every time she was 
looked on by a man ! If she did, she'd be like our 
cook-maid's kettle, never off the boil ! 

Clarissa (impatiently). Oh! be quiet, Sally! 
Tell me what I'm to do ! 

Sally. Do ? Why, you must just wait here till 
the horses are rested before you can go on again. 
Tis not for long ;. in an hour at most we shall be on 
the road. 

Clarissa (horrified). An hour ? Oh! sl thousand 
aunts might arrive in an hour! (To herself.) How 
I came to find enough resolution to run away I don't 
know! (Simpering a little.) It shows how desperate 
I am ! But I daren't stay at home any longer ! 
(To Sally.) I know now what old Colonel Porter 
meant, when he told my aunt she reminded him of 
the old Duchess of Marlborough. He fought at 
Blenheim, you know, Sally, and he knew the Duke 
quite well — and I suppose the Duchess too ! 

Sally. And she was like your aunt ! Lor ! 
Mistress Clarissa, I always thought he was tougher 
than most ! If he could live through a battle and 
a Duchess like your aunt and your aunt, and look as 
well as he does to-day — well, I shouldn't think he'd 
ever run a chance of dying ! 

Clarissa (sighing). Ou — ou-— ouff ! What a 
wretched coward I am! Just feel how my heart 
beats ! (Lays hand on heart.) 

Sally (unsympathetically). I expect you're hun- 
gry, mistress ! If we ate a bit, it might hearten us 
both up. 

Clarissa (horrified). Oh, Sally ! How can you 
talk of eating ! (Tragically.) I shall never eat 
again ! Hark ! What's that ? (Springs to feet, 
terrified) Oh ! It's a horse ! It's a horse, Sally ! 
(Mistress and maid clutch each other.) Oh ! Sally, 
it'll be my aunt ! 



MISTRESS RUNAWAY. a' 

(Both stand hesitating, then holding each other still, 
rush to window. Pause.) 

Clarissa (with relief). Oh— o-oh ! No, it's a 
man ! 

Sally (with satisfaction). Ah — a- ah ! And a 
groom as well ! 

(Sally turns from window as though to leave the room , 
but is recalled by Clarissa's exclamation.) 

Clarissa. Why ! Oh ! It can't be — Sally, come 
quickly ! Do you see ! Isn't — isn't that the gallant 
who stared so when I was in London this spring ? 
When I was choosing of my new sack — you remember? 

(Both heads go together ; excited whispering, gesture, 
peering out of window, etc. Clarissa turns from 
window, and stands looking down stage.) 

Clarissa (with sudden assumption of dignified 
indifference) . How — very — strange ! 

(Enter Rupert Porter, talking to some one without. 
, Screen prevents his seeing Clarissa and Sally.) 

Rupert (very crossly). Oh ! do as you like, do as 
you like ! If the horses can't go on, why ! they 
can't ! Dinner ? 'Pon my word, man, no ! (Lower.) 
I feel as if I never wanted to eat again. 

(Stands c. down stage, talking to himself) 

Rupert. To be disposed of like a calf and then — ■ 
asked to have one's dinner ! (Disgustedly.) What's 
come over the world, I wonder ! 

(Exit Sally.) 

(Clarissa moves down and sits on settle back to Rupert, 
who hearing movement turns to her.) 

Rupert (very softly). Why ! What is this ? 
No — yes — it is the same ! It can't be ! It is ! 



10 MISTRESS RUNAWAY. 

(Louder, advancing hat in hand.) Er — er— er, I beg 
you, pardon me ! I — I had no notion any one was 
here. Er — I did think of having dinner here — but 
if you wish me to retire — er — I should quite under- 
stand. 

Clarissa (very demurely). Sir, you are vastly 
kind, but — er — this is a public parlour ! 

(Short silence ; Clarissa stares pensively at -fire. 
Rupert stares at Clarissa, drops a glove, fidgets 
from one foot to the other, finally stands opposite 
Clarissa with back to fireplace.) 

Rupert. The — er — the weather's vastly warm 
and pleasant to-day, isn't it ? 

Clarissa (sweetly). Y-e-es ! But it rained quite 
heavily this morning ! 

Rupert (confused). So it did, I'd forgotten that. 

(Enter Landlady.) 

Land. I dare swear you're ready for your dinner, 
sir ? 

Rupert (embarrassed). Perhaps the young lady 
would object ? 

Clarissa (coldly). Object to your dining ? Oh ! 
no, sir ! 

Land, (benevolently). P'raps the young lady'll 
join you, sir ! 

Rupert (embarrassed). Oh — er — I hardly, I 

Clarissa (modestly to Landlady). If 'twill oblige 
I have no objections ! 

Rupert (delighted). A thousand thanks, madam ! 

Land, (beaming). Now I take that very kindly, 
missy — mistress, I should say ! I'm a bit short- 
handed just now, and 'twill suit me better to set one 
table than two ! (Goes to side table, takes cloth from 
drawer, shakes it open.) And you both be the gainers. 



MISTRESS RUNAWAY. 11 

You won't neither of you feel so blushy-like while 
you're eating. 

(Clarissa and Rupert look horrified. Rupert flings 
down his whip with a great clatter.) 

Land. Dear life, sir ! You might have broken 
it ! Let me ! {Comes and takes whip and lays it on 
side table.) 

Land. As I was saying, when one is eating, two 
had better ! (Spreads cloth on table c. Continues to 
go to and from side table, fetching spoons, etc.) It 
breaks the ice in a manner of speaking, and, as I see 
the young gentleman knows, a man as is eating under 
any one's eyes gets a bit nervous, and then 'e gets a 
bit sloppy, and don't rightly know where 'e is putting 
his food, whether it's on 'is waistcoat or whether it's 
in his stom 

(Rupert raises his heel, and kicks over stand with 
poker, etc. Clarissa lifts hands to ears.) 

Land, (jumps). Dear life, sir ! That's the second 
thing you've sent to the ground ! (Advances to fire- 
place, takes poker, etc., and places them on floor some 
distance away) 

Rupert (rather low). You'll forgive me, won't 
you, madam ? 

Clarissa (emphatically). Oh ! sir, I thank you ! 

Land, (returns to Rupert, and takes his hat and 
gloves). Best let me take these, sir! (Soothingly.) 
They'll be safer over here, sir, you being, if you'll 
pardon me, given to dropping things ! (Lays hat, 
etc., on chair near door. Opens door and takes in 
plates, dishes, etc. Places on table, and sets chairs to 
it.) 

Clarissa (rises). 

Rupert (aloud). Permit me, madam. (Hands 
Clarissa to table. They seat themselves.) 

Rupert (to Landlady) . Thanks, my good woman, 



12 MISTRESS RUNAWAY. 

we will manage for ourselves ! Doubtless if you are 
short-handed 'twill be something easier for you ! 

Land. Thank you kindly, sir ! But 'tis no ill- 
convenience, only a pleasure ! 

Clarissa {shakes her head). Ugh ! (To Land- 
lady.) But we would really rather — I mean, it 

must be very troublesome (To Rupert.) Do 

you not agree, sir ? 

Rupert (with alacrity). Oh, most certainly ! 
(To Landlady.) I beg of you to retire. 

Land, (huffily). I have waited here on and off 

(Stops and stares from Clarissa to Rupert.) Well ! 
to be sure ! Of course I will ! Now, why didn't I 
think of it before ! (Smiles broadly.) Dear, dear ! 
To think I should have forgot how I felt in my youth ! 
Dear, yes ! I was never one to want a third party 
when I was court 

(Clarissa and Rupert bend over their plates, and 
make a great clatter with their knives and forks, 
drown end of Landlady's speech. Exit Landlady, 
smiling and shaking head.) 

(Pause.) 

Rupert. Er — er — it's been vastly warm and 
pleasant to-day, hasn't it ? 

Clarissa. Ye-e-es ! Only it did rain greatly this 
morning, didn't it ? 

Rupert. Now you mention it, I — think it did. 

(Both eat steadily, and seem to have hearty appetites. 
Presently Clarissa pushes away plate, and leans 
back in chair.) 

Rupert (solicitously) . Surely you have not finished ? 
Clarissa (sighs deeply). Oh ! sir, when the mind 
is troubled the body needs but little sustenance ! 
(Rupert puts down fork and pushes away plate.) 

Rupert (gloomily). Too true, madam ! 
Clarissa. Surely, sir, you have not finished ? 



MISTRESS RUNAWAY. 13 

Rupert. Madam, I am like you, I can touch 
nothing ! 

(Both sigh deeply.) 

Rupert (leaning forward across table). Mistress, 
you are too fair to bear trouble alone ! (Softly.) 
Will you not confide in me ? Can I not help you ! 

Clarissa (with heroic firmness, staring straight in 
front of her). Sir, no man can help me ! (Dabs eyes 
with handkerchief.) I — I am the victim of an un- 
loving relative ! A — a relative who under the guise 
of wishing me well, would rid herself of me ! I — I 
could bear it no longer, so (very plaintively) I have 
run away ! 

Rupert (startled). Heavens ! Madam, what mean 
you ? Your relative would rid herself of you ! She 
— she has not tried to — to murder you ? 

Clarissa (startled). Oh! No, sir! (Dismally.) 
But she has tried to marry me ! 

Rupert (starts to his feet). How very strange ! 

Clarissa (coldly). Sir ! 

Rupert (excitedly). Why, mistress, 'tis just my 
case ! I, too, have a relative who from motives of 
avarice would force me into marriage ! 

Clarissa. Why, 'tis too extraordinary ! But 
perhaps the lady pleases you ? 

Rupert. How can she please me ? I have never 
seen her, never heard of her ; do not even know her 
exact age ! At least, I mean I knew nothing of her 
when I was ordered to (bitterly) put myself up for sale 
before this heiress like a calf ! Since then, however, 
I have made inquiries ! (Nods sagely.) 

Clarissa (breathlessly). Ah ! Tis just what I 
did ! 'Tis a town gallant they would wed me with, 
so I wrote and begged a friend to tell me truly what 
like he is ! Do you think it was right ? 

Rupert (leans on table). The wisest thing in the 
world, mistress ; why, I did it myself ! Well ! I 



14 MISTRESS RUNAWAY. 

was nearly worn into a fever with expectancy, and 
then {dismally) the answer came ! 

Clarissa (dismally). So did mine ! 

Rupert. I have the letter with me now. Ah ! 
madam, may I read it to you ? You who — who are 
so sweet and a — a model to your sex, will be able to 
tell me if I did right to instantly refuse ! 

Clarissa (blushing). Nay, sir, if I aid you, you 
must in turn give me your advice ! 

Rupert. Tis a bargain ! 

(Both produce letters.) 

Rupert (reading). " — your absurd " h'm ! 

where is it ? Oh ! " — very much amused " 

bah ! H'm ! oh ! here it is ! " Well, yes, I have 
both seen and spoken with the young lady, and to 
be quite candid, dear boy, I wouldn't have her even 
with the gilding ! " 

Clarissa. Oh ! What a brutal way of putting it ! 

Rupert (apologetically). He is something of an 
ass, but, poor fellow, he spends half the year plough- 
ing and hunting ! (Reads.) " When I last saw her, 

she was a raw-boned, under-sized filly " I, I 

beg your pardon ! He — he means she was rather — 
thin, you know — " But 'tis a year since I saw her, 

and they may have fed her up since then " 

(Timidly.) I — I am afraid he must be always in the 
stables. (Reads.) " For the rest, I judged her free 
from vice, the sort of creature my wife calls ' bread 
and buttery ' ! " (Lays down letter.) Now tell me, 
am I not right to refuse ? 

Clarissa (emphatically). I'm sure you are ! I 
never heard such a dreadful description ! Now, 
will you advise me? (Opens letter and reads.) " As 
to the matter you speak of, I will try and get a white 

lace " Oh ! oh ! that's not it ! Ah ! here it 

is ! (Reads.) "If you really wish to know if I ap- 
prove of rouge " Oh ! oh ! That's not it ! Ah ! 

(Reads). " — know him quite well, and personally 



MISTRESS RUNAWAY. 15 

I wouldn't have him a gift ! He is vain and empty- 
headed ; clumsy on his feet, and rather loutish with 
but an overlay of modish manners, and with no trait 
of manliness about him. Not at all suitable to my 
sweet Clarissa, whom I feel sure he wouldn't have 
the courage to protect from a mouse ! " It doesn't 
sound pleasing, does it ? 

Rupert. Indeed, it doesn't ! Take my advice, 
and have nothing to say to him ! 

Clarissa (sighing). I won't ! Isn't it strange 
we should both have the same trouble ? 

Rupert (tenderly). Fate must have meant us to 
be comrades ! Madam, I have not been quite open 
with you. If this heiress (taps letter) had been Venus 
herself she could never have won my heart ! (Lowers 
voice.) For it went from me last spring into the 
keeping of a maid whose name I do not even know ! 

Clarissa (half turns away). I — I — oh ! it's very 
odd we should be both alike ! (Emphatically.) Oh ! 
I will never obey my aunt ! 

Rupert (energetically). Nor I my uncle ! I will 
go straight to him and say (rises, strikes attitude of 
defiance), u Uncle Porter ! " (Clarissa starts vio- 
lently.) " I'll none of your plans ! Keep your money, 
or marry this Tollemache creature yourself if you 
will ! " 

(Clarissa rises very slowly to her feet, turns to face 
Rupert with a furious expression.) 

Clarissa (icily). And I, sir, I will go to my aunt 
and say : " Aunt Tollemache, if there must be marry- 
ing, go and marry this Porter monster yourself ! " 
(Rupert staggers back aghast.) 

Clarissa (furiously). How dare you ! Oh ! how 
dare you ! Coward ! Mean coward ! Writing to 
your low friends and playing at pitch and toss with 
my name ! (Stamps.) Oh ! I could kill you ! 
(Makes close up to him, and draws herself up.) Look 
at me ! Am I undersized ! (Flings wide her arms.) 



16 MISTRESS RUNAWAY. 

Am I raw-boned ? Am I — am I (her voice ascends) 
bread and buttery ! Oh-o-o-o-oh ! (Turns away 
from him.) I who am the toast of the county to be 
so insulted — to dare to write of me ! 

(Rupert throughout her speech has attempted to 
pacify her with questions.) 

Rupert (hardly). Well, mistress, well ! (Louder.) 
You wrote about me ! (More angrily, but looking 
sideways at Clarissa.) Am I empty-headed ? Am 
I not modish ? Am I vain and loutish ? (Stands 
over her threateningly.) Am I not worth a gift ? 
Oh-o-o-o-oh ! 

(During Rupert's speech the door opens, and the 
Landlady and Sally are seen peering round.door. 
Landlady takes a step forward to interpose anxi- 
ously when Sally seizes her arm, saying : " Come 
out ! " and leads her from the room.) 

Clarissa (very angrily). It was unpardonable ! 

Rupert (very angrily). Undoubtedly it was! 

Clarissa (with dignity). Sir, I pray you not to 
add mockery to your offence ! 

Rupert. I pray you, madam, not to attempt to 
justify your conduct. 

Clarissa (furiously). Justify my conduct ! Why, 
'tis for you to 

Rupert (interrupting). No ! 'tis for you to 

Clarissa (interrupting). I vow 'tis you to 

Rupert (interrupting). I vow 'tis not 

Clarissa^ 

and \ (both stamping angrily). O-o-o-oh-oh ! 

Rupert j 

(Rupert walks to window. Clarissa walks to 
fireplace.) 

Clarissa (wipes eyes). To think that you should 
be the man I fled from ! 

Rupert (gloomily). To think that you should be 



MISTRESS RUNAWAY. 17 

the lady I refused. (Comes down stage and collects 
hat, gloves, and whip.) (Sadly.) 'Twas only last 
spring 

Clarissa (sobs). Yes ! 'Twas only last spr-i-ing — 

Rupert (gloomily). When you were buying a 
new sack 

Clarissa (wipes eyes). And you were buying 
ribbons for your cane 

Rupert (despairingly). That I should ha' wished 
myself the garment you were buying that I might 
be always near you ! (In his emotion drops hat, 
gloves, etc.) 

Clarissa (pitifully). It — it — it never fitted! 

Rupert (picking up letter from table). To have 
my happiness destroyed by this ! 

Clarissa (sharply). By a lie ! 

Rupert (stands confounded staring at letter, then 
turns to Clarissa). True, madam ! By a lie ! Why 
— 'tis only truth need stand 'twixt honest folk ! 
(Tears up letter, and throws on fire.) There ! 'tis 
gone ! (Tenderly.) Can you not do the same ? 

Clarissa (softly). With all my heart ! 

Rupert (joyfully). Then — then we can begin 
again with nothing but our love between us ! (Takes 
Clarissa in his arms.) 

(Door opens, Landlady and Sally look in. Seeing 
nothing, advance to screen and peer round to fireplace. 
Sally, on seeing Clarissa in Rupert's arms, ad- 
vances smiling. Landlady seizes her arm, and 
saying firmly, " Come out," leads her from the room.) 

Clarissa (sits on settle). 'Tis a strange world ! 
To think I should have run away from you only 

Rupert. Only to run into my arms ! (Kneels 
beside her.) Ah ! is it not a wonderful world ? 

Clarissa (nodding). I can't think why people 
are unhappy in it ! It is such a dear place ! 

Rupert. So fair. 



18 



MISTRESS RUNAWAY. 



Clarissa. So hopeful ! (Lets hand fall to side 
Rupert kisses it.) 
Rupert. So full of beauty ! 
Clarissa. So free from fear and 



(Door flung open, 
and breathless. 



Landlady and Sally enter scared 
Rupert springs to his feet.) 



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Land. Dear life, sir ; there's a coach just driven 
in a-gallop with the horses all a-sweat and the gentle- 
man a-swearing awful 

Sally. Oh ! Mistress Clarissa, 'tis your aunt 
and Colonel Porter ! And your aunt's swearing 
the worst of the two ! 

Clarissa (horrified). My aunt ! 

Rupert (surprised). My uncle 

Clarissa (terrified). Oh ! What shall we do ? 

Rupert (laughing). We shall give them a pleasant 
surprise ! (To Landlady.) Bring them here, I 
pray you ! 

(The Landlady and Sally bustle out.) 

Rupert (takes Clarissa by both hands). Sweet- 
heart, we have nothing now to fear ! 

Clarissa (sweetly). No ! now that we're together ! 

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8236 The Dentist 
8287 Taken for Granted 

2238 Just as Well 

2239 Hoginany 
224U Pansy 

2241 A Doctor's Engage- 

ments 

2242 A Duet 

2243 My Milliner's Bill, Is. 

2244 My Aunt from Cali- 

fornia 

2245 His Life for Hers 

2246 The Meeting 

2247 The Umbrella 

Duologue 

2248 The Late Lamented 

2249 Woman Triumphant 

2260 Angelina's Lover 

VOLUME 151 

2261 Chrj'santhemums 

2252 My First Client 

2253 Punctured 

2254 Old Pals 

2255 Honeymoon Tragedy 

2256 Commission 

2257 Hal, the Highwayman 

2258 Dinner for Two 

2259 Ninth Waltz 

2260 Human Sport 

2261 Collaborators 

2262 Mere Man 

2263 Packing Up 

2264 Paying Guest - 

2265 'Enery Brown 

VOLUME 162 

2266 The Jilt 

2267 'Op-o'-Me-Thumb 

2268 A Marriage nas Been 
Arranged 



2269 Carrots 

2270 Conversion 

Sturge 



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2271 Clerical 

2272 Aubrey ( 

2273 Workbos 

2274 Two on t 

2275 Bridget'i 

2276 That Bri 

2277 Well Ma 

2278 Maker oi 

2279 Gutter of Time 

2280 Game of Chess 




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2310 Uncle Dick's Darling 



VOLUME 153 

2281 Mr. Steinmann'a 

Corner 

2282 Ella's Apology 

2283 Colour Sergeant 

2284 Helpless Couple 

2285 First Aid to the 

Wounded 

2286 Correct Thing 

2287 Their New Paying 

Guest 

2288 Domestic Entangle- 

ment 

2289 Salt of Life 

2290 Time is Money 

2291 Wally and the Widow 

2292 Deceitful Miss Smiths 
2?93 Holly Tree Inn 

2294 Up-to-date 

2295 Bit of Old Chelsea 

VOLUME 154 

2296 Wrong Side of the 

Road 

2297 The Open Door 

2298 Prima Donna (Pem- 

berton) 

2299 Lights Out(Pemberton) 

2300 Mirror of Time 

2301 Three Blind Mice 

(Muskerry) 

2302 Privy Council 

2303 Snowed up with a 

Duchess 



VOLUME 155 

2311 That Horrid Major 

2312 Bardwell v. Pickwick 

2313 House of Nightingale 

2314 Turtle Doves [d<= 

2315 Superior Miss Pellen- 

2316 His Good. Genius 

2317 Martha Plays the Fair 

2318 Dumb Cake 

2319 Proposing by Proxy 

2320 Phoenix 

2321 Boatswain's Mate 

2322 Final Rehearsal 

2323 Two Aunts at a Time 

2324 Nelson Touch 

2325 Convict on the Heart 

VOLUME 156 

2326 Grey Parrot 

2327 Ghost of Jerry Bundh 

2328 Bishop's Candlestick) 

2329 Peacemaker 

2330 Changeling 

2331 Wire Entanglement 

2332 Pride of Regiment 

2333 "1588" 

2334 Man on the Kerb 

2335 O'Dowd 

2336 Impertinence of tl 

Creature 

2337 Dramatist at Home 

2338 Martha the Soothsay 

2339 Old Martha Is. 

2340 All Through Martha 1 



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